Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

To make this happen, a cross-functional team from each market selected ten promising brands and focused on getting initial, measurable results on one of them in 100days.Over the next year, these teams built on the initial results so that the collective gain was over half a billion dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. This innovation has impact. Conclusion? So what should mothers2mothers' leaders do?

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve. Leadership Social enterprise'

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. Thus far, through this approach, Embrace and Embrace Innovations have helped over 3,000 babies with our product.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. As the Economist said this year about the fast-growing green bonds market, sometimes “ a market appears out of nowhere.” Tough choices.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Whether your goal is to tap this enormous, underserved market for a revolutionary new product, or to impact as many people as possible with a novel healthcare intervention , the question is the same. They encourage viral marketing through early adopters. How can you accelerate customer adoption of the best solutions?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. The result will be innovation.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. ’ Game.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., What Companies Are Doing.

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Supply Chain Energy McKinsey Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

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